Would you leave a workman alone in your home ?

Wren

Wren

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I have plumbers working in my home, checking and doing a general service, they seem nice men and I’ve met them before but I can’t wait for them to finish so I can go out !

Some of my neighbours work and others just go about their daily routine, happy to leave a key for the workmen but I just couldn’t give people access to my home, I’m in the bedroom, putting away summer clothes, shoes etc.

What is your view on this ?
 

Aside from workmen in the house ..you wouldn't expect your supermarket grocery delivery man to steal your amazon parcel from the doorstep when he's delivering your bread and milk would you?... but yesterday I saw a video in the news of a delivery driver from Asda doing just that !

In this video first you see the Amazon driver leave the parcel, then the Asda delivery driver comes along..apparently steals the parcel and is brazen as heck with the homeowner..

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10026862/asda-driver-cctv-groceries-amazon/
 
I don’t think they would steal anything but I’ve seen the TV programmes where workmen have a good nosey through your drawers (and in some cases, your draws) !!
 
as a retired self employed builder for 35 yrs,yes was most often given a key to the house,,on an extension that takes 3 months,your gonna need to go out sometimes?
ah the knicker draw,lol,,,,all myth,,mostly theyre hanging on the line lol
 
Well you'd have to take a chance if the work was extensive but a young friend of mine arrived home to find a pair of hers hanging from the light fitting on the ceiling

(a whole new topic but, if, ‘mostly they’re hanging on the line’, depends how many pair of draws you own and how often you wash ‘em) ! :oops:

Who says we have a count up and compare totals ? 😄
 
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My daughter had extensive remodeling done in her kitchen last year, and also new flooring put in thru-out the house. It took weeks to do everything and the family was gone most of the time the work was being done .. work/school.
The workman was the father of a good friend of hers, so she felt comfortable giving him keys to the house.

It all worked out just fine. .. He even took their dogs for walks during the day. .. and his carpenter skills were A-1
 
Never. I do 99% of my own repairs, in part, because I know how companies, these days, hire just about anyone to fill a given trade position.

I had a plumber snake my line, about twenty years ago. He told me he had just gotten out of prison, for armed robbery, a few weeks earlier, after serving ten years. He told me he had a snake to sell. I told him I'd be interested, early in the following year. A few weeks later, at around 10 PM, he showed up at my door, buzzed, telling me he had the snake in his van, at the curb, and I should come out and take a look at it. It was pitch black, outside. He was acting very odd. I told him that I had said, next year, and then told him I wasn't coming out and he needed to leave. All of this was said through my barred security screen. He left, never to return. I strongly feel that had I gone out, I might not be here, today.
 
I don’t even want to let apartment maintenance guys to come on while I’m out. Not hard now that I’m retired, but once before when I was working part time living in a different complex they once had some outsiders come to check sprinklers & I got home to find the key left in the door, visible from the sidewalk & road; another time a brand new cordless mouse still in its package disappeared. And at best they leave a mess unless you’re there to see to it that they clean up after themselves.
 
If it is someone I do not know, then no. When I had my deck and ramp built, and the work done inside the house recently, the workers were friends of my husband. So, yes, in this case I sometimes left them alone if I had errands to run. I even trusted one of the guys with a key to the house, in case they finished before I got home and left for the day.
 
Wren said:
I have plumbers working in my home, checking and doing a general service, they seem nice men and I’ve met them before but I can’t wait for them to finish so I can go out !

Some of my neighbours work and others just go about their daily routine, happy to leave a key for the workmen but I just couldn’t give people access to my home, I’m in the bedroom, putting away summer clothes, shoes etc.

What is your view on this ?
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Thankfully I’m retired we have many workmen coming and going at our house but I would never leave them alone in the house. For working people in this neighborhood it must be very very difficult because these people sometimes won’t show up or they’ll give you a huge window of time it really is a nightmare for working folks.
 
I would never leave them alone unless the job is outside. I don't know what I would do if I was still working or if the indoor remodeling/job would take a long time.
 
norman said:
That is what we call a bloodletting..damn bet that hurt.
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Really didn't
Bled like all git out, though.
Had to pour some mighty good single malt on it, and put a tourniquet around my arm for a bit.
Wife got home and fussed at me about the blood everwhere
 

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